On Saturday, I had the wonderful opportunity to help and observe a friend put a couple of batches of soda down. He’s been home brewing beer for quite awhile now and I, correctly, thought that by actually watching him do a batch I could pick up plenty of tips and techniques about brewing. It was [...]

This morning I realized, again, that I have too many hobbies. I really wonder if I sometimes really get paralyzed by the number of things that I _could_ be doing. Work is easier, there is a defined goal that I need to work for generally so it’s easy to just keep plugging away until it [...]

Quick note about talking to me about anything you see, there should be at least a couple of links on this page that send me email. Maybe it’s old fashioned, but this space is and will continue to be me speaking to the world without the availability for the worlds comments to be seen directly [...]

After Sprint backed down on their promise to release 3G support for the phone Springboard module that I use, I’ve been thinking about maybe looking into a new phone. Probably wouldn’t get one quite yet, but it’s time to start researching. So I poked around the web a bit and I ran into a couple [...]

Progress Report Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 182 hours I had opened bottle #2 earlier in the week and it had still not been at all carbonated so I decided to just let it sit for a few days, then the household got pretty sick for most of the week [...]